Cognos is a reporting envornoment that provides access to certain institutional data at SPU. It is a secure server that requires a Cognos account, which is only available to specific users in specific departments.
Login URL: https://cognos.spu.edu/cognos/
Most users will login to Cognos from their SPU managed computer on-campus. For this usage, the process should be seamless as the computer should be configured to pass your username credentials to Cognos and log you in automatically. In otehr instances, you may need to provide either your SPU username/password, or perhaps even a separate Cognos username/password. More details can be found here.
This feature should not be necessary for most users because the process should be seamless, but if you should need to change your Cognos password, instructions can be found here.